On Tuesday 17 August 2004 23:10, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Leendert, Anders,
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 19:15, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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So I guess I should use "kdesu" to launch yast2 in my (so far putative) KDE menu additions.
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 10:23, Anders Johansson wrote:
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That's one way. Checking the "run as different user" button and entering "root" as the user to run as is another
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 12:38, Leendert Meyer wrote:
Surprise, surprise:
Open up the YaST Control Center (the graphical one, not the textmode).
Select Software.
Now drag the 'Install and Remove Software' icon onto your desktop.
A dialog pops up, asking for a name. Give it a name (it will be the filename of the .desktop file).
Now Click on the icon you just dropped. ;P
Cheers,
Leen
More great suggestions. Thank you both.
This just hammers home my ignorance of all the capabilities of KDE and of the SuSE distribution.
It took me hours to find out what I needed to know to write a few simple scripts for manipulating the clipboard from the shell and from other scripts.
Right now, I'd like to find out how to bring an existing window to the top (so, e.g., I can add it as an option to the script I use to mediate the disposition of URLs to Mozilla; likewise for opening text files in jEdit).
Where does one learn how to exploit all the power of KDE?
I suppose in the KDE documentation? ;P Nose around on your HD (KDE'S docs, /usr/share/doc/packages). Nose around on http://www.kde.org/documentation/. Nosing around and trying something out is how I learn stuff. Sometimes I just think 'Hey, is that possible?', then I try it out and indeed is *is* possible. I think that's how I discovered the trick with the YaST icons... Cheers, Leen